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Princess Celestia is losing control of her political power. The system is slowly crumbling due to the inverse relationship between harmony and "freedom". With the invitation of television sets, the internet, and instant coffee machines, "freedom" becomes the preferred theme of the Celestian empire as opposed to harmony.

With no other options (or perhaps due to a stroke of genius), Princess Celestia brings a self proclaimed expert on "freedom" to Equestria along with his entire family to create a new show with familiar roots: The Coltbert Report.

How will his family handle the new Equestrian life? Will Stephen Coltbert be able to return harmony to the land with his mixture of satire and wit? Only time and hundreds of episodes will tell.

Join Stephen Coltbert as he provides the conservative viewpoint on Equestria so that you don't have to.

As big a fan as I am of the Colbert Report (I mean like, a ridiculously huge fan), I just couldn't really get into this chapter. The biggest issue for me is that the dialogue felt really stilted. I mean, I've watched interviews with Stephen Colbert out-of-character, and he sounds nothing like what you've written. Plus, the whole concept of being plucked from your world, dropped into another, and then asked to learn up on the local politics and history in order to do a comedy show on it seems kinda...well, creepy, for a start. A pain in the butt. Probably not the ideal situation to come up with brilliant comedy.

I think what would have been funnier (and now I'm crossing the gap from commenting on the story as it exists to saying how I would do it, which I admit might be a dick move on my part, but I hope it illustrates what my expectations for the fic were when I saw the title) is rather than having Stephen Colbert the human turned into a pony and teleported to Equestria, you just start out with a pony/Equestrian version of Stephen Colbert and just jump right into him doing an episode of his show. No complicated origin story, no issues about the well-being of the character or how he gets along in Equestria, and you can introduce the politics of Equestria through the comedy of the show, so you get to jump right into the real meat of the story. But, like I say, this is just how I would imagine doing it, so maybe there's something to your approach I'm not picking up on yet.

I was planning on doing just ponified versions of the shows, but I found that I would get bored of this very quickly. It's called a prologue because the meat of the story isn't there yet. The first chapter of your fiction is very well done, but not something that I want to rinse, lather, and repeat. Variety is the spice of life and status quo is the starch. I tagged the story as an adventure because, quite frankly, this is what it's going to be. If it wasn't, the definition of the story would simply be, "Join Stephen Coltbert as he provides the conservative viewpoint on Equestria so that you don't have to."

Plus, my author's note says that episode 1 will be the next chapter.

The pacing is intentional, but if Colbert seems out of character, I can concede to that. I've only seen a few clips of him out of character. His Playboy interview, his character breaking when he testified for the Mexican workers, and the few breaks that he does on his show.

I'm interested to see what exactly Celestia's concerned about. Is she unconsciously demonizing new ideologies? Is Equestria really being corrupted? Or is society unaware of its problems, and needs the Colbert Bump?

Also, is who's the new Jim? Is he a Rush fan too?

Not much to say on the writing side of things this early. The dialog was formal to the point of being stale, but then again it WAS business talk. I'm left wanting seconds.

An intelligent, sensible, compassionate, empathetic, generous person can have absolute freedom and will never do anything 'bad' due to it being against his or her core personality. Such a person will innately desire harmony and do only things which bring about harmony. This is confusing abstract social concepts with personal responsibility and interpersonal relationships.

Just like in America America the place were capitolism rules but nobody has any money but we all have overly priced @$/& on the capitol city high charity the flood took it over and covered it in some goey stuff that came only be described as "holy hell this $&)@ stinks"